Record of the times vol. 4 no. 268

BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WILL
The dead Mormon Chief and Proph-et left behind him a will, the provisions of which have been made public, and, all things considered, it will be recog-nized as a great deal more just and equitable than might have been ex-pected. His possessions aggregate about two millions of dollars. His "family" consists of seventeen wives, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daugh-ters. The will provides for a division of the property among the widows in exact proportion to the number of children of each. There is an abund-ance to give each widow, son and daughter a handsome competence. Ann Eliza, who sued for a divorce from Brigham, and one or two other wives, who in later years abandoned him, are cut off without a cent, but the children of such are provided for the same as those of the faithful wives. Ann Eliza probably now realizes that she made a sad mistake in endea-voring to relieve herself of the matri-monial yoke at the time she did, her object evidently having been money, which she failed to secure. It had been surmised that the Prophet would leave the bulk of his wealth to his fa-vorite son, whom he always regarded as his successor, thus placing in his hands the great power which wealth always gives in the securing and main-taining of position in such a commu-nity as Utah. If John Young the afore-said favorite son, becomes the suc-cessor of his father as the head of the Mormon Church, he will not be able to achieve that end by means of money alone, being in that respect on exactly the same footing as his brothers. There will be no disagreement as to the jus-tice of the provisions of Brigham Young's will, His much commiser-ated wives will no longer be the sub-jects of national pity. All of them are left independent, and the younger ones will doubtless soon be wives again, dispensing the wealth of the dead prophet more lavishly than he ever did.

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BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WILL
The dead Mormon Chief and Proph-et left behind him a will, the provisions of which have been made public, and, all things considered, it will be recog-nized as a great deal more just and equitable than might have been ex-pected. His possessions aggregate about two millions of dollars. His "family" consists of seventeen wives, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daugh-ters. The will provides for a division of the property among the widows in exact proportion to the number of children of each. There is an abund-ance to give each widow, son and daughter a handsome competence. Ann Eliza, who sued for a divorce from Brigham, and one or two other wives, who in later years abandoned him, are cut off without a cent, but the children of such are provided for the same as those of the faithful wives. Ann Eliza probably now realizes that she made a sad mistake in endea-voring to relieve herself of the matri-monial yoke at the time she did, her object evidently having been money, which she failed to secure. It had been surmised that the Prophet would leave the bulk of his wealth to his fa-vorite son, whom he always regarded as his successor, thus placing in his hands the great power which wealth always gives in the securing and main-taining of position in such a commu-nity as Utah. If John Young the afore-said favorite son, becomes the suc-cessor of his father as the head of the Mormon Church, he will not be able to achieve that end by means of money alone, being in that respect on exactly the same footing as his brothers. There will be no disagreement as to the jus-tice of the provisions of Brigham Young's will, His much commiser-ated wives will no longer be the sub-jects of national pity. All of them are left independent, and the younger ones will doubtless soon be wives again, dispensing the wealth of the dead prophet more lavishly than he ever did.